Jason Ho

By dutchin ( January 29, 2010 at 7:47 pm) · Filed under Uncategorized

As you may have seen, Jason Ho is all over the popular poker forums, this is because former students have made allegations against him:

Lying about his poker winnings.

Lying about his insolvency issues.

Taking coaching money and not providing acceptable professional coaching, refusing refunds.

Using his students’ accounts while coaching other students on teamviewer, effectively seeing a student’s hole cards while playing as their opponent, and stealing money from them.

Creating complex, untraceable cash transfers between students accounts, which always left them down from their original amount, without a proper explanation.

Forming a ‘crew’, a close knit group of players whose collective goal was to reach high stakes together and profit from Jason’s knowledge and teachings as a team, at which point he encouraged the crew to organise a bankroll of over $100,000 which he began playing with without informing the others, losing 60% and attempting to take the majority of the remainder as ‘living expenses’.

The overall feeling is that Jason owes his students a full refund, but also that StoxPoker.com should share in part of the blame because their coach quality control measures weren’t stringent enough in weeding out someone of this nature, and students were basing many of their financial decisions regarding coaching and staking based of the reputation StoxPoker gave Ho.

When confronted with these allegations in the StoxPoker.com private forums, Jason dodged the issues, made veiled threats and tried to organise a prop bet to combat the claims about his winrate, even though that was the least of anyone’s problems. I never had to deal with the guy personally, but being Stox’s productions manager, Skelm did.

It’s just a shame to see what happens when someone has the power of influence over many, and abuses their trust. Whether or not every detail of every allegation is true, the common theme is that Jason Ho is not, and was never the million dollar winning high stakes pro that was only out to help people improve their game through his charitable nature. StoxPoker’s damage control measures are to refund a portion of coaching to each of the people who have been burned by Jason. How many people come forward, and how they will determine who has a legitimate claim and deserves a refund I’m sure we’ll find out soon.

Original Stoxpoker.com thread – http://www.stoxpoker.com/forums/showthread.php?t=29205

TwoPlusTwo thread – http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/101/coaching-advice/where-did-jason-ho-thread-get-moved-695466/

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